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Pink Lemonade Cupcakes with Marshmallow Cloud Frosting

Perhaps an atypical recipe for this time of the year, but delicious and zesty nonetheless, and perfect for a pink celebration of sorts.

In honor of KitchenAid’s Cook for the Cure, and their latest fundraising effort, the Culinary Showdown, I’m sharing these sweet lemonade cupcakes with fluffy marshmallow cloud frosting. Make them with or without some matching flower toppers (how-to’s in links below), for a Cook for the Cure event of your own and fundraise for a good cause and a chance to cook alongside an all-star line up of Canadian chefs!

How can that happen?

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Put Your Best Plate Forward!

This year, KitchenAid is offering you the chance of a lifetime with the Cook for the Cure Culinary Showdown! The Culinary Showdown is your chance to cook alongside an all-star cast of your favourite celebrity chefs! On December 7, 2013 at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel, host Dean McDermott and chefs Lynn Crawford, Chuck Hughes, Mark McEwan, Vikram Vij, Corbin Tomaszeski and Tyler Florence will be looking for you to join their teams as they compete versus one another.

The chance get up close and personal with your favorite culinary idols are quite good, too – The top 50 fundraisers across Canada will win the opportunity to work alongside renowned chefs and put their own culinary skills to the test. Fundraisers who raise at least $2,500 will participate in the Culinary Showdown’s Celebrity Chefs School, where they’ll learn tips and techniques from the top chefs. Finally, participants who raise a minimum of $1,000 will watch the culinary battle as a member of the event’s audience!

So put your best plate forward and start fundraising! To help get you started, I’m also excited to share a tip directly from the multi-talented Chef Chuck Hughes here with you, courtesy of KitchenAid Canada! Among other shows, Chef Hughes can be seen on the Food Network & Cooking Channel’s Chuck’s Day Off and will be at the Culinary Showdown on December 7th, 2013. He shares one of his plating tips here with you:

Oysters are a great ice breaker for any dinner party. Display the oysters in the box they come instead of a wine box…lots of ice…fresh horseradish and homemade cocktail sauce and you’re ready to go.

Thanks for the advice, Chuck! I’ve never tried them at my own dinner party, but can’t wait to now!

And my tip for today:

Give yourself more time to mingle with your guests by preparing menu items in advance. Serve simple appetizers which can be made ahead or just warmed in the oven, and chop vegetables etc. before your friends and family arrive. If you don’t have time to set up ahead, involve your guests as much as you can in the preparation. People often love to help and it’s a great icebreaker too!

And if you’d like more info. on making these toppers, click on the corresponding links below:

Pour your icing into your mixing bowl and chill for a few hours to overnight. (Thoroughly chill).

Remove from the fridge and mix icing using an electric mixer or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment. (Icing will be stiff and difficult to stir by hand). Ensure all icing is mixed by scraping down the sides of the bowl at least once.

Beat for about a minute, until the icing becomes smooth and glossy. The icing will become quite thin - this is okay! Once it's smooth set the icing aside at room temperature for about an hour. It will thicken to a spreadable or consistency.

hello ,
could you tell me please can you just use normal lemonade for these cakes???
ive not seen any pink lemonade concentrated in the uk???
was wondering is it the fizz that makes these a little different??
thank you for any help with this 🙂
gorgeous recipe though and i shall be trying the marshmallow icing 🙂 x

Hi Julie,
I’ve only tried the concentrate… so it’s packed with a little more flavour than regular lemonade (of the same amount). Do you have the yellow lemonade concentrate in the UK? You could just color the batter pink with a few drops of pink food coloring.
There isn’t any fizz in the concentrate. I’ll bet that would be neat though!

We dont have it in Australia either. but i wonder if flat lemonade would do the trick. Or maybe the concentrate you use for the machines that you make your own fizzy drink from. They would be concentrated flavour mmmmm may have to give a go and see what happens i guess 🙂

I’ll have to remember these for May. When you posted about Cook for the Cure a month or so ago it couldn’t have come at a better time. My aunt and I wanted to do something for the Breast Cancer Foundation. We are now planning a tea party over Mother’s Day weekend! My aunt has been battling breast cancer for awhile now. Also, my grandmother died of breast cancer when my dad was only 18. She was a baker so it’s the perfect fit!

Hi Julie, that’s nice to hear that the post came in a timely manner for you. I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother, and send hugs to your aunt from me, please! Looking forward to hearing about your tea after Mother’s Day weekend if you’d like to share! xo

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